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Surname
LISTER
Forename
William
Day
18
Month
11
Year
1910
Age
35
Occupation
Deputy Overman
Mine/Quarry Name
Trimdon Grange
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Walter Scott Ltd
Location
Trimdon Grange
County
Durham
Details of Event
The colliery was not working, but deceased was engaged with a few men to go down daily and keep the road in repair. They went down each morning at 6 a.m. and took a pony with them. On the morning of the accident deceased went into the fireholes, and saw and spoke to the winding engine man who was there. He then came out and going to the shaft opened the gates and got hold of a cage door, which he daily used to lay across to the cage for the pony to walk on (wire rope guides being in use) and walked backwards into the shaft. The morning was dark and ho had set his safety lamp down some 3 yards from the shift. He fell on to the cage which was set bye in the shaft 180 feet down. When the cage was brought to bank, the man's body was found on the top. He evidently had forgotten that the cage was not there. A witness saw everything that occurred, and the deceased man's movements showed he fully expected the cage was ready for him.